Alice Street Bakery Café

The best bakery in Chinatown. Uncommonly clean for the area, no flies, and they accept credit cards. You can also order through UberEats.

If you ever find yourself with a fancy coffee in hand, farmers market goods in your bag, waiting patiently in line at Bake Sum (they're great, love the vision but respect is due where it's due.), well, you first need to pay homage to Alice Street Bakery Cafe.

Alice Street Bakery is the OG! This is where it all starts. This is the quintessential Cantonese bakery satisfying all your sweet and savory bun, custom cakes, and drink needs. Everything is exactly as it should be: perfectly set up with a couple tables for your Cantonese uncles and grandpas to mull over tea and cakes during their morning chats, while the young kids ogle over pretty slices of cake in the front, and regulars hustle in and out with their favorite buns. This is not precious, butter-laden, French-inspired pastry culture. This is Cantonese baking at its best, its most original, and yet perfectly situated for our modern times. AND the staff is surprisingly, ridiculously, helpful and sweet. We need to keep places like Alice Street Bakery alive and, trust me, we will be back many many times again. And tip them well!

You have to try their Shrimp Burger with Spicy Mayo! It’s big enough to share for two people and the best in the Bay Area!

The milk tea tastes like it was diluted with tap water, and the boba used is the cheap, mushy kind with zero flavor. Worst boba I've ever tried.

I dropped my boba drink outside (100% my fault) and the lady kindly made me another one free of charge. Really helped my day from being terrible, thank you!

Great place to take kids for a quick after school snack. I love their sponge Swiss cake slices.

I had their fried shrimp burger with lime pineapple sauce. It was a nice hefty size. The thick shrimp patty was fried perfectly with a light and crispy crust and the buns were nicely crisped up on the griddle. Honestly pretty impressive and I definitely would come back for more. My only issue was that I picked the lime pineapple sauce out of about 8 sauce options at ordering and it was definitely the wrong choice. The sandwich probably would have met its potential with a stronger, umami rich sauce.

What a hidden gem.
Their Asian style bread with different filling are wonderful. I especially like their bread with corn and ham.
They also recently added sandwiches which reminds me the sandwiches I had in Asia.
Their shrimp sandwich was fry with Japanese Tempura batter (if you like Tempura shrimp). You can choose different sauces to go with it. I highly recommend the fish or shrimp sandwich with lime sauce. Sooooo good!

A popular sit-down bakery next to Lincoln Park and at the edge of Chinatown that has a wonderfully large sandwich menu. The shop has some comfortable seating but most patrons probably order take out. The boba tea is pretty good as well.

Ordered a birthday cake and they were super nice to wrap it with ice after I mentioned were going to a picnic.

Great coffee too!

I tried them through the app ToooGoodToGo. Was expecting to “save a meal from waste”, instead I got 4 fountain drinks w/ice (not left overs, not a meal) and a snotty attitude. Not worth the parking.

Food was really great. The bread on the sandwichs are damn good and properly buttered (as expected for a bakery). The veggie egg rolls were way better than expected. Fried to a perfect crisp and were not oily or greasy at all! (rolls were also pretty good size and portion too)

I'm definitely coming back for the food. My pregnant latina gf loves orange chicken sandwich